Resin coating



Patented Dec. 30, 1941 RESIN COATING Harry I. Lewis, Appleton, Wis., assignor to, The Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wis; a corporations! Wisconsin No Drawing. ApplicationMarch :1, 1939, 4 Serial Re ssues 4 Claims. (Cl. 260-42) This invention relates generally to resin coatings and more particularly to a resin coating for chemical laboratory furniture.

Laboratory table tops are subjected to destructive attack from almost every 4 known source, chemical and physical. It is not only necessary that they withstand the action of innumerable chemicals but they must also withstand heat, abrasion, and shock.

Many different substances have been employed in the past, a g. stone, sheet lead, ceramic ware, asbestos tops, and wood coated with some chemically resistant material. None of these has been completely satisfactory. Stone, the most commonly used, is attacked bystrong alkaline and acid solutions. Where a material may resist acid and alkali, it will be injured by solvents such as iurfural, phenol, carbon tetrachloride or gasoline.

It is, therefore, the object of this invention to provide a durable coating which will be inert to acids,-alkalis and chemical solvents, and which will withstand the exposure to heat, abrasion, and shock resulting from ordinary usage.

I have discovered that a coating which will satisfy the stated requirements can be produced by mixing together a plurality of materials which. when so mixed, can be heated so as to result in a product which will have all the desirable properties.

For example, a solution 01 alcoholic and aldehydic derivatives oi iurane, when mixed with a solution of a co-polymer of vinyl halide and vinyl ester in acetone and a resiniflcation promoter, can be heated to produce a coating of resin which is'practically inert to all chemicals encountered in the ordinary laboratory.

The following is a description of a preferred method which I have used in preparing this newv resin.

To a mixture containing 100 parts by weight of iuriuraldehyde and '70 parts by weight of furturalcohol there is added 68 parts by weight of a percent acetone solution of the powdered oo-polymer of vinyl acetate and vinyl chloride in which the chlorine content is about 45% of the total solids. This mixture is treated with parts by weight oi 6 percent H2804 in acetone followed by a five minute drying period in an oven at 90-100 C. A second coating is then immediately applied followed by another brief drying period. These two steps are repeated until a hard smooth coat oi resin oi the desired thickness is obtained which is then finally dried in an oven at 150 C. for. 4 hours.

My new coating when tested with such rents-- sentative chemicals as conc..HCl, conc. HNOs, canal-1:804, 10% NaOH, pellet caustic, cuprammonia, ethanol, benzene, acetone, ether. carbon tetrachloride, and iuri'ural, showed no effect whatsoever. v

Under the shock test which consists in allowing a metal ball of known weight to drop by gravity from a known height on to a horizontal surface coated with the resin. the new resin withstands a four pound weight from one foot in contrast with the usual satisfactory requirement of two pounds from one foot. Concerning resistance to heat, the new resin has been found to be capable oi. withstanding 600 F. for 15 minutes without blistering.

Investigations into the variations oi this preierred method have resulted in establishing certain limitations within which the best results are oi iuriuraldehyde to iuriuralcohol are 1:1 andobtainable. For example, the limits of the ratio 321 respectively, and the percent oi Vinylite coco polymer on. the total furiurai-i'uriuralcohol should range from 3% to 15%. By increasin the furiural-iuriuralcohol ratio above 3:1 the resulting resin becomes less resistant to oxidizing agents and some solvents, and by decreasing the iuriural-turfuralcohol ratio below 1:1 it .was

found that the new resin is more susceptible to the action oi heat. By increasing the percent Vinylite co-polymer on the total i'uriural-iurfuralcohol mixture above 15% a loss in resistance 40 toward chemical solvents results and on decreasto every 100 parts of the mixture. A resiniflcation begins to set in.

To carry out the preferred method of application of the above prepared mixture, a dilution by' 30-50 parts of acetone based on the total weight of the above mixture is immediately efiected. The liquid is then sprayed on to the intended surface in a thin even coat. This is 5.5 The ilnalpolyme izatlon of the act ve roupin s ing it below 3% a loss in resistance toward acids results.

The amount of resiniflcation promoter, when H2804, may vary from 0.3% to 2.0% on the total weight of alcohol, aldehyde. and Vinylite mixture. More than 2.0% will cause a ielling before spraying can be effected and less than 0.3% causes the resulting resin to be attacked, especially by-concentrated nitric acid.

None oi the above limits are intended to be sharp cut points beyond which a usable resin under certain conditions cannot be made, but are only indicative of the range giving the best results under the conditions stated.

in the coating take's'fplace during the drying period. It, therefore, follows that many of the of drying resins in general may be applied to 10 this step in the process.

The resiniilcation promoter is not limited to- H2804 acid but may include other known mineral and organic acid, ,or acid salts which are familiar to the art. Many oi the common plasll ticizers such as tricresyl phosphate, dlbutyl phthalate, etc. may also be used in this process f either alone or along' with the catalyst. The powdered co-polymer of vinyl halide and vinyl Y ester may contain any ratio oi the two comso patients. The preierredco-polymer is commercially available at the present time and is weliknowntotheart.

= The term vinylite" as used throughout this specification refers specifically to the powdered 2s co-polymer of vinyl acetate and vinyl chloride in which the chlorine content is about 45%. However, it is intended that other co-polymers oi! vinyl halide and vinyl esters may be used.

It is realized that certain other modifications might occur to those skilled in the art. For example, the resiniiying agent or catalyst may-be added as a second step iollowing the application of the acetone solution 01' iurIuralcoholruriuraldehyde Vinylite mixture. It is. therefore, as desired that the following claims be given the broadest interpretation commensurate withthe state 0! the art. I

I claim:

l. A chemically inert resin composition pre- 40 paredbyheatingamixturecontainingiurtural aaeasat 1 n found when using 8 units.

and iuriuralcohol in a ratio within the limits of 151 to 3:1, a powdered co-polymer 01! vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate in which the chlorine content is about 45% in a quantity by weight of 3% id 15%; the furiural-furiuralcohol, and 0.8% to 2.0% H2804 by weight oi the total mixture of vinyl compound j and turiural compounds, said composition being particularly adaptable for use as coating material ior'chemical laboratory i'urniture.

I 2. A resin composition comprising the heat reaction product of a plurality of iurane units consi'stlng of turfuraldehyde and iurturalcohol and vinyl units consisting of vinyl chloride and vinyl ac'etategthe ratio of said aldehyde to said alcohol being 1i 1 to 3:1 and the proportion of said vinyl units to said iurane units being 3 to 15 per cent of said-i'urane units.

.43. A heatv reactive composition particularly adaptable for coating chemical laboratory iurniture comprising an acetone solution contain ing a mixture of about 100 parts of iuriuraldehyde, about '70 parts oi iuriuralcohol, about 68 parts oi a 15 per cent acetone solution of a copolymer of vinyl acetate-vinyl chloride having a chlorine content of about 45 per cent, and about so parts of 9.6 per cent acetone solution of suliuric acid to every 100 parte'oi' said mixture.

4. A process for producing a substantially chemically inert composition of improved resistance to heat, shock and abrasion, which comprises heating in the presence of an acid catalyst a mixture containing iurane derivatives consisting oi iuriuraldehyde and iuriuralcohol and a vinylite co polymer consisting of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate, the ratio 01 said aldehyde to said alcohol being 1:1 to 3:1 and the proportion of said vinylite' co-polymer to said iurane derivatives being about 3 to 15 per cent oi said iurane HARRY F. LEWIS. 

